What are you reading the week of October 3, 2010?

[DUgosh]

Thanks Hippywife for hosting this thread during my absence. ( family drama...lo )

I'm reading The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly

[northoftheborder]

1. Catching up with magazines - Nation, Texas Observer, Horticulture

[hippywife]

2. This week I finished both

Kunstler books World Made by Hand and The Witch of Hebron. Not sure I will continue with the series as he continues it. I enjoyed the first book, was a little disappointed by the second one but it was still okay, and I have a feeling I already know exactly where he's going in the next one.

I didn't make it to the library yesterday but I have seven J. California Cooper books on hold to pick up on Monday.

Welcome back, DUgosh. Good to see you. Sorry for the family drama. :hug:

[wtmusic]

3. The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe

Great layman's perspective.

[Rowdyboy]

4. "Flood" by Stephen Baxter....an excellent post-apocalyptic novel....

which begins in the year 2016 and covers the next 40 years or so. It paints a dismal picture of climatic disaster and corporate greed. Interesting characters too....

The best hard science fiction I've read in a long while


http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2008/07/flood_by_stephe.shtml

It turns out this is the way the world ends: neither with a bang nor a whimper, but a splosh. Baxter's new novel is, in several senses, a storming disaster tale—his best book for a long time, actually. It's a splendid and engrossing read and a thought-provoking whole to boot.

The story is there in the title. In 2016 persistent rainfall and rising sea-levels overcome the Thames Barrier and central London floods. Similar inundations happen in low-lying coastal regions around the world. Some consider this freak weather, others, small-scale global warming; but as Baxter's novel moves on, it becomes clear that something on a much larger scale is happening. The novel then tracks through three decades of rising water, and humanity's various strategies for dealing, or incapacities for coping, with the results.

[pscot]

5. I'm finishing Checkmate, 6th and last of the Lymond chronicles

by Dunnett. That will leave a void, but my library holds are coming in a rush; novels by Wilbur Smith, Ellen Crosby and Robert Parker, plus All the Queen's Men: the World of Elizabeth 1, by Brimacombe; The Renaissance in Europe: a reader; and The Fabric of the Cosmos, by Greene.

[hippywife]

9. Feast or Famine, huh?

:rofl:

[sharp_stick]

6. Parrot and Olivier in America

I'm trying to read some of the shortlisted Booker Prize novels.

[ZombieHorde]

7. I am reading, The Rising, by Keene.

The Rising is about zombies.

[azmouse]

8. "The Seance" by John Harwood

[applegrove]

10. I'm reading "River Thieves" by Michael Crummey. A novel about the extermination

of the first peoples of Newfoundland.

[YankeyMCC]

11. "The Dervish House"

by Ian McDonald

So far it's very good, I really enjoy his writing. However, it isn't grabbing me as strongly as "River of Gods" did although most reviews say this book is even stronger.

[abluelady]

12. Welcome Back

Today I'm starting "The Ape House" by Sara Gruen.

[fadedrose]

13. THE FOURTH WATCHER by Timothy Hallinan

This is the second in the Poke Rafferty series. The first book is called A Nail Through the Heart, but it hasn't come in yet thru interlibrary loan and I usually like to read series books in the order that they were written. I think this one's pretty good. Rafferty's character is a writer living in Bangkok, Thailand.

[japple]

14. Just finished Jeffrey Lent's A Peculiar Grace--not so hot, kinda

boring. I liked In the Fall.

[mtowngman]

15. Just started "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller

WHOOOA!! the first seven pages make Bukowski look like a choirboy.:blush:

[NEOhiodemocrat]

16. I am reading Flash by TIm Kring

Not to impressed with it. Sounded good, early 60's, CIA, FBI, LSD, Kennedy assination.. I was wrong, but I just keep trudging through it. Need to get to the library and pick up something else soon.

[devilgrrl]

17. The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson

eom

[hippywife]

18. Been having a J. California Cooper marathon

Finished Piece of Mine; Some Love Some Pain Sometime; The Matter is Life. All short story collections.

Working on another of her short story collections, Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns.

Have three more in the stack and I think I will have read all of her books.

:hi:

[fadedrose]

19. THE QUEEN OF PATPONG by Timothy Hallinan

Almost half-way through the newest of Poke Rafferty books. Just got the first book, A Nail Through the Heart, via interlibrary and will read it last.

Hallinan's not my most favorite author, but I do like him. He has great characters and intricate plots.

Also picked up a couple each of Louise Penny and Brian Haig books....and the newest Archer Mayor.

[fadedrose]

21. I really liked this one

I read the Poke Rafferty series completely out of sequence, and I enjoyed all of the books.

If you're looking for something different in a mystery, try this one. The diaglog between Rafferty and his policeman friend is especially good.

[LWolf]

20. Just finished "The Name of he Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss.

Highly recommended.

http://www.patrickrothfuss.com/content/books.asp